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What Does the Olympic Ski Team
Get to Eat? Mountains of Food

By

Rekha Balu Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated Feb. 4, 1998 12:01 a.m. ET

Parents who complain about how much their teenagers eat should be grateful they aren't feeding Olympic athletes.

The U.S. ski team asked food giant ConAgra Inc. to provide 1,255 meals for its 16 members during the two weeks of the Olympic Games in Japan. Because the ski team is staying in remote mountain villages, far from Nagano's westernized Olympic Village, members worried that "sushi and fish would get pretty old after a...